Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. Spam costs the sender very little to send — most of the costs are paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender.Spim is the unsolicited commercial messages sent via an instant messaging
Never, ever reply a spam mail, even if it is the dream product you ever wished for. By replying to a spam confirms you read it, and your address goes on the spammer’s list for the entire lifetime of your email.
Set your email to not to show images, this way you can prevent Web bugs commonly known as beacons to tell the spammer you have viewed the message, thus confirming you address again. Beacons are usually a small pictures as small as 1×1 pixel.
A web crawler (also known as a web spider, web robot, or—especially in the FOAF community—web scutter) is a program or automated script that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. Other less frequently used names for web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, and worms.
Spiders or a web crawler is a is a program or automated script that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. So, if you post your email online, write out “name at domain dot com”or tm.selbor[@]gmail[dot]com. By doing this the spider cannot identify it as an email address thus would ignore it. Anyone who does not have the enough common sense to translate that to name@domain.com is not worthy to send you a message.
Use email with a spam filter. Almost all of the common email software has a built-in spam filter, make use of it. Thunderbird, Yahoomail, Outlook 2003 and 2007 have their own spam filter. Gmail’s has almost flawless spam filter. Security suites commonly include spam filters in their package.
It maybe quite tedious and your friend may get annoyed, but the more complicated your e-mail address the harder it is for the spammers to guess and to crack your code. Let say for example tmselbor@yahoo.com in comparison to tms3lb0r@yahoo.com.
Spim is the younger brother of Spam in instant message. The Spam in instant messages is called Spim. You can easily avoid it by using murky username (such as tms31b012). Most importantly, DO NOT list your handle in the IM or Skype provider’s public directory.
Some products will fight spim, but only if it is with the original software clients. Web-based IM’s such as Yahoo! and Google instant messenger are not protected yet.
Have a safe computing!
I was looking for free a language translator software to translate the Italian message jokingly sent to me by my friend the when I discovered about the Lingoes 2.4.5. Lingoes is a multi-language translation and dictionary software can provide translation results in over 60 languages. Aside from translation and dictionary there are also some useful tools like the abbreviation chart, periodic table, an international time zone converter, a dialing codes directory, a weights & measures converter and a currency converter.
Lingoes offers text translation, a cursor-driven translator, index list group and pronouncing text, and abundant free dictionaries as a new gerenation dictionary and translation software. Lingoes offers users the on the spot way to look up dictionaries and translation among English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Greek, Polish, Arabic, Hebrew and more over 60 languages. It has creative cursor translator which automatically recognizes the word and its definition the moment you move the cursor and point to any text, then press hotkey designated by the software.
The key feature of Lingoes are the following:
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You love to read but your always on the go, you don’t have the time to sit or curl up in your favorite couch and read the latest adventure of Harry Potter or feel the thrill of John Grisham’s or be touched by Johanna Lindsey romance novels. Well, that wouldn’t be a problem anymore. You can read, discover novels, short stories, articles straight from your mobile phones for free.
Wattpad Reader v1.2.5 is a free e-book reader that can be downloaded straight to your mobile phones. Go to m.wattpad.com on your phone’s web browser and follow the link to download Wattpad Reader. Or download the files to your PC and then transfer to your phone using Bluetooth or USB connection. Click here to download to your PC.
Wattpad Reader can turn your mobile phone into a library. You can choose from a vast selection of articles, novels, popular, classic works, fan fiction, short stories, poetry and many more. You can even upload your own works to share with others. You may also read uploaded materials in several languages (aside from English) like Italian, Spanish, Francais, Tagalog, Mandarin, Korean and many more.
It can work on compatible phones like Nokia, Motorola, Sony-ericsson, Samsung, LG, Black Berry, Sharp, Panasonic, Benq.Siemens. Click here to see the listing of compatible phones.
As a blogger, the most clicked icon on my desktop is my Web browser application specifically, the Mozilla Firefox. I used it more often than I used my document and spreadsheet application. I thought it would be nice to add more power unto it. To add more capabilities than what it just supposed to do, and it would give me a lot of convenience and more quality browsing time.Web browser, especially the Firefox and Internet Explorer (IE) have a lot of available code and snippets (thousands actually). Too many that we could get confused of what to install in our browser, what are the most helpful and can be practically used. Here are some few tips that could give your browser extra power. Click on the link (the name of the add-on) to go directly to the site where can download listed add-ons for free.
1. Adblock Plus – If you have enough of those annoying ads you should try Adblock Plus. Adblock plus is an add-on for Firefox that block, not just pop-ups, but regular banners, towers, rich media stuffs, and Google’s omnipresent ads. Though, Adblock plus doesn’t block everything, but it swipes enough that you will immediately notice the difference. Adblock Plus is FREE. For IE user, you could try the AdMuncher free for 30 days trial and then pay $30 for it.
2. Foxmarks – Foxmarks is a bookmark synchronizer. If you frequently use different computers, then you undoubtedly had to deal with different browser on each PC, each of those PC then have its own different set of bookmarks. To help you synchronizing all those bookmarks you could use the Foxmarks. Just install Foxmarks as add-on on all Firefox browsers on each system, then viola! You got all your bookmarks synchronized. As added bonus, you can freely access all your synchronized bookmarks on the Foxmark website.
3. FlashGet – FlashGet is an add-on that let you keep tracks to all your downloads, regardless of the application you are using. FlashGet is quite popular download manager that can help you organize and queue up FTP, BitTorrent, uTorrent and other types of downloads. FlashGet works in the background and let you pause and resume downloads. It works on any browser. And the best thing, its FREE.
4. Screengrab – You want to have a copy of a Web page and the Print Screen will not work because a page has too much content that it fills two display screens. What you need to do is to install a Screengrab. Screengrab is a Firefox add-on that lets you save a full page, a visible portion of the page, or just a small part of the page that you would want to copy. You may save it as digital file or print it out immediately. If you are using IE browser Screenshot can do the same thing for you.
5. FireFTP – Normally, an FTP application require installing another complete application, but not necessarily if you have FireFTP add-on. FireFTP is a Firefox add-on that turns your Firefox browser into an impromptu and speedy two-way FTP. Once it is installed in your browser, FireFTP appears in the Tools menu. Clicking it would open a new FTP tab, offering a simple two-pane system that lets you easily copy files between you desktop and your remote site.
6. Orbit Rich Media Downloader – You want to copy your favorite band Music Video from Youtube to your hard drive, normally, you go to a various Web services that let you copy-paste the URL of the video to receive a copy. But often than not, they are relatively slow and most of them wont work on less popular video-sharing sites. Orbit Rich Media Downloader adds a context-sensitive set of new menu item to your right mouse button in your Web browser. Every time you see a video on DailyMotion or hear a song new song on MySpace, just right click it and save it on your PC.
7. ErrorZilla – The standard “server not found” page error is useless if you are looking for a site that do not exist or cease to exist. ErrorZilla adds a series of buttons to the lower portion of usual “Firefox can’t server” error message, providing instant access to the Wayback machine like Google cache, Whois lookup and more.
8. Saving Protect Media Files – Have you have ever experience of wanting badly to save a picture of your ultimate idol but cannot because the site is protected and disable the right-click to prevent you from easy downloading? If you are Firefox user here’s some cool trick to let you save a protected media. Go to the site you want, right-click anywhere on the screen but not on image, and select View Page Info, then click the Media tab to see a list of all images on the page. You may scroll the list and a preview will appear at the bottom of the window. Click the Save As when you find one you want.
9. Firebug - Firebug is another Firefox free add-on that lets you integrates Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
10. Adsense Notifier – If you want to keep track your Adsense earnings daily, in real-time, the Firefox Adsense Notifier is a perfect plug-in for you. The total ad impressions, CPM, and your total daily earnings can be seen on the bottom right corner of your browser as they accumulate.
When we buy something we also choose the option that could give us the extras, it might a freebies or an extra services. But not all extras are good, there are some extras that could really get us in hassle and can cause trouble. In taking the extras, we should be careful and always try to stick to an old adage that says “Anything that is too much is bad.”
In a dictionary Extra is a prefix that means beyond or outside something. It is also an adjective that means more than usual (added to, or over and above, the usual, original, or necessary amount), it could also be an adverb the means exceptional. Extra could mean a lot of things, but here in ExtraBytes extra would mean rising above mediocrity. To stand-out and be noticed. To go beyond what people are just expecting from you and rise above the ordinary.
Let’s talk about the good extras, the bad extras and anything in between. Take your extra bytes today.
